Industrial Design in Vietnam

The applicant may divide,on his/her own initiative or upon the request of the NOIP,his/her application (division and transfer of one or several technical solutions in an invention registration application[...]

Before the NOIP issues any of notices specified at Point 17.1.a of this Circular, an applicant may request the NOIP to record the transfer of his/her application to another person.

The refusal accept the valid application of Vietnam Industrial design registration is realized as follows[...]

Documents identifying an industrial design registered for protection in an industrial design registration application include a description and a set of photos or drawings of such industrial design[...]

Under Vietnam IP Law, Industrial design means the outward appearance of a product embodied in three dimensional configuration, lines, colours or a combination of such elements

If the applicant to whom the NOIP has sent a notice on its intended refusal of the application fails to correct errors or unsatisfactorily corrects errors or makes no opposition or makes unreasonable opposition to the intended rejection within the set time limit,the NOIP shall send a notice on its refusal of the application[...]

On the date of expiration of the time limit for substantive examination of an application at the latest,the NOIP shall send to the applicant one of the following notices[...]

1. novel industrial design - An industrial design shall be deemed to be new if it significantly differs from other industrial designs which have been publicly disclosed by use or by means of written descriptions or in any other form either inside or outside Vietnam prior to the filing date or the priority date, as applicable, of the application for registration of the industrial design.

If you have a industrial design and would like to register it, SBLaw would like to inform you some information about protecting your industrial design in Vietnam for your reference:

(1) Filing the application In order to obtain right for industrial design in Viet Nam,you must file the application for granting an industrial design patent,directly or by mail,to the National Office of Intellectual Property of Viet Nam (NOIP) or its brand offices in Ho Chi Minh City or Da Nang. Organizations,individuals...

1. Minimum documents - 02 Declaration for registration which are typed according to form No. 03-KDCN Appendix A of Circular No. 01/2007/TT-BKHCN; - 01 copy of the industrial design description; . - 04 sets of photos or 04 sets of drawings of an industrial design. - Fee and charge receipts. 2. Other documents (if...

Filing the Vietnam Industrial design application is carried out as following:

1. Definition Industrial design means a specific appearance of a product embodied by three-dimensional configurations, lines, colors, or a combination of these elements. Products herein are understood to mean articles, tools, equipments, or parts used for assembling such products, manufactured by industrial or handicraft methods, with a structure and clear function,...

Documents identifying an industrial design registered for protection in an industrial design[...]

In order to reach the Industrial design registration certificate, the applicants have to fulfill the whole examination procedure consists of following steps[...]